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fevered

adj

Etymology

From fever + -ed.

  1. derived from *dʰegʷʰ-✻
  2. derived from febris
  3. derived from fievre
  4. inherited from fefer
  5. inherited from fever
  6. suffixed as fevered — “fever + ed”

Definitions

  1. Affected by a fever

    Affected by a fever; feverish.

  2. Heated

    Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.

    • Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
    • To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.

  3. simple past and past participle of fever

The neighborhood

Derived

befevered, unfevered

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA